EVENT: FOOD AND DRUG LAW INSTITUTE holds a conference on "Privacy Issues and Dilemmas for Drug and Medical Device Manufacturers."

AGENDA: This conference will address the evolving state of privacy laws as they relate to drug and medical device manufacturers, and suggest specific strategies for risk management in this area. The program goal is to present integrated solutions for addressing the most pressing issues that drug and device manufacturers confront today with respect to privacy.

David Stampley, Assistant Attorney General, New York State Attorney General's Office

Peter P. Swire, Professor of Law, Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University

DATE:

LOCATION: Westin Grand Hotel, 2350 M Street NW, Washington, D.C.

CONTACT: 202-371-1420

WEB ADDRESS: fdli.org

TIME: All Day

EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a conference On Importance Of Cash Flows V. Audited Earnings. Enacted by Congress last year in response to corporate scandals at Enron and elsewhere, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act establishes a new and costly regulatory structure simply to assure that financial statements are properly audited. But financial statements, no matter how well-audited, have inherent deficiencies well summarized by the aphorism "earnings are an opinion; cash is a fact."

AGENDA: Highlights:

9 a.m. - Peter J. Wallison, AEI

Peter Fisher, Treasury Department

9:45 a.m. - Panel One: Cash Versus Reported Earnings

Richard Bassett, Risktoolz

Robert Eccles, PricewaterhouseCoopers

Alex Porter, Porter Felleman, Inc.

James K. Glassman, AEI

Peter J. Wallison, AEI

11:15 a.m. - Panel Two: Policy Implications

Kevin A. Hassett, AEI

Peter J. Wallison, AEI

Pippa Malmgren, Canonbury Group

James K. Glassman, AEI

DATE: January 23, 2003

LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-862-5933

WEB ADDRESS: aei.org

TIME: All Day

EVENT: U.S. CONFERENCE OF MAYORS holds its 71st Winter Meeting. The meeting will focus on key issues related to both Economic Security and Homeland Security. The Conference of Mayors will bring forward an economic investment agenda, and continue to push for direct homeland security/first responder resources for cities.

DATE: January 23, 2003

LOCATION: Capital Hilton, 16th and K Streets NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-293-7330

WEB ADDRESS: usmayors.org

TIME: All Day

EVENT: ACADEMYHEALTH AND JOURNAL HEALTH AFFAIRS provides an in-depth look at the nation's health policy agenda at the National Health Policy Conference.

EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a conference, "Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the U.S.-R.O.K. Alliance: Strategic Realignment Around the Korean Peninsula and Tasks for New U.S. and South Korean Leadership."

AGENDA: Highlights:

9:15 a.m. - Opening Remarks: SAIS Dean Jessica Einhorn

9:45 a.m. - Session 1: Is the Current U.S. Foreign Policy Sufficient to Respond to

EVENT: CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND U.S. SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION will brief reporters on the Business Matchmaking Program, an SBA initiative that offers small businesses a unique opportunity to compete for billions of dollars in government and private company contracts.

AGENDA: In each region, small businesses will have pre-scheduled, individual appointments with buyers from federal, state and local government agencies, as well as private companies. Before an event, small business owners and buyers complete online profiles to create the best possible matches.

DATE: January 23, 2003

LOCATION: 1615 H Street NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-463-5682

WEB ADDRESS: uschamber.com

TIME: 8:30 a.m.

EVENT: AFRICA ACTION holds a news conference to discuss Malign Neglect: A Briefing on U.S. policy toward Africa under the Bush Administration.

EVENT: ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIA SERVICES holds a program on the concern journal Science; senior scientific experts have with the influence that the political process is exerting over federal scientific advisory panels

WHO: The speakers are:

Martin Apple, Ph.D., President, Council of Scientific Society Presidents, Chair of the Board of Visitors at University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute

EVENT: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service presents Prof. Dr. Thomas Risse who is director of the Center for Transatlantic Foreign and Security Policy at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the Frei Universität Berlin. Born in 1955, he received his PhD. from the University of Frankfurt in 1987 discussing "The Emergence of a European Public Sphere: Insights from an Empirical Project."

EVENT: CENTER FOR NATIONAL POLICY holds a news conference to discuss US-Cuba Policy.

DATE: January 23, 2003

LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: Emily Cooney, 202-682-4118

WEB ADDRESS:cnponline.org

TIME: 12 noon

EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on No Shame for the Sun: Lives of Professional Pakistani Women with Shahla Haeri, author and Director of the Women's Studies Program at Boston University. Dr. Haeri's new book will be available for purchase.

EVENT: INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS holds a Book Release for "The Korean Diaspora in the World Economy." The next year marks the hundredth anniversary of Korean migration into the United States. That migration began in 1903 with the movement of Korean workers into sugar plantations in Hawaii. It is estimated that almost 2 million Koreans now live and work in the United States. A total of about 6 million Koreans, close to 10 percent of the current population of the Korean peninsula, now live outside the peninsula.

AGENDA: To celebrate the hundredth anniversary of Korean immigration into the United States and to analyze the little-noticed Korean diaspora's past and potential future economic impact, the OKF and the Institute held a major conference in Seoul in October 2002 and are now releasing this volume.

DATE: January 23, 2003

LOCATION: 750 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-328-9000

WEB ADDRESS: iie.com

TIME: 12 noon

EVENT: NATIONAL ECONOMIST CLUB holds its luncheon program featuring Larry Harris, Chief Economist, Securities and Exchange Commission, discussing "Current Issues in the Competition Among Stock Markets, ECNs and Dealers."

DATE: January 23, 2003

LOCATION: Chinatown Garden, 618 H Street NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 703-739-9404

WEB ADDRESS: national-economists.org

TIME: 12:30 p.m.

EVENT: WOMAN'S NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CLUB presents Dr. Alan Geyer, Canon Ethicist at the Washington National Cathedral, discussing the life and work of Ralph Bunche, Nobel Peace Prize winner and Under Secretary-General at the United Nations.

DATE: January 23, 2003

LOCATION: 1526 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-232-7363

WEB ADDRESS: democraticwoman.org

TIME: 1 p.m.

EVENT: PFLAG holds a news conference to discuss the "Eseara Tuaolo Student-Athlete Scholarship," named in honor of the former NFL defensive tackle Esera Tuaolo, who courageously revealed in October 2002, that he is a proud gay man. It is the first-ever PFLAG National GLBT Scholarship Program for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students, who frequently face highly charged and hostile environments in their schools.

WHO: The speakers are:

Rep. Robert T. Matsui, Fifth District, Sacramento, CA

Robert F. Chase, President, National Education Association 1996-2002

Esera Tuaolo, former NFL Player, current GLBT Role Model

David Tseng, PFLAG Executive Director

Sam Thoron, PFLAG National President

DATE: January 23, 2003

LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 467-8180 x224

WEB ADDRESS: flag.org

TIME: 2:30 p.m.

EVENT: CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES presents Shizuka Kamei, member of the House of Representatives of Japan and former chairman of the Policy Research Council for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), will discuss Japan's foreign and domestic policy priorities.

DATE: January 23, 2003

LOCATION: 1800 K Street NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: Mark Schoeff, 202-775-3242

WEB ADDRESS:csis.org

TIME: 3 p.m.

EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on Political Islam And Democracy In Indonesia.

WHO: the speakers are:

William Liddle, Professor of Political Science, Ohio State University Zulkieflimansyah, Head, Department of Economic Policy, Justice Party of Indonesia

Ihsan Ali-Fauzi, Writer and Expert on Indonesian Islam

Eric Bjornlund, Moderator and Former Woodrow Wilson Center Fellow

DATE: January 23, 2003

LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Washington, D.C.

CONTACT: 202-287-3400

WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu

TIME: 4 p.m.

EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its Afternoon Newsmaker" news program on Israeli Elections.

WHO: The speakers are three representatives of the Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian Peace:

Professor Lawrence Davidson of West Chester University

Professor Patrick Loy of Johns Hopkins University

Professor Bill Koupoulos of Columbia University

DATE: January 23, 2003

LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-662-7500

WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org

TIME: 4:30 p.m.

EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a program on Priorities for Reconstruction in Afghanistan: Developing a Private Sector.

AGENDA: The private sector has yet to be included in a significant way in the reconstruction of Afghanistan, even though many believe its participation is needed in order for democracy and an open-market economy to succeed in the nation.

WHO: The speakers are:

Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, AEI

Ishaq Shahryar, Afghan ambassador to the United States

Mahmood, Karzai, AACC

Walli Workman, U.S. Chamber of Commerce

DATE: January 23, 2003

LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-862-5933

WEB ADDRESS: aei.org

TIME: 6 p.m.

EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE presents Shaughn Dowd and con brio! the theatre ensemble offers a program of Academy Award winning and nominated music from the 1930s to the 1960s.

DATE: January 23, 2003

LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-416-8000

WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org

TIME: 6 p.m.

EVENT: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY presents Lakhdar Brahimi, Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for Afghanistan discussing "Afghanistan: Prospects for the Future" and receive the twenty-second annual Raymond "Jit" Trainor Award made possible through an endowment created to recognize a career of dedicated diplomatic service.

EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE presents Jill Conner Browne discussing The Sweet Potato Queens' Big-Ass Cookbook And Financial Planner she weaves her tales of her life in Mississippi with all its humor, joy, and sadness. DATE: January 23, 2003

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